Change Is Possible by Patricia Clark Kenschaft

Lorch graduated from Cornell University in 1935. Lorch had three siblings: Arthur, Regina, and Judith.

His mother was a school teacher until she married, and his father eventually became part owner of a small factory. Lorch’s grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Germany (an old town in the Rhine River Valley is named Lorch). Lee Lorch was born to Adolph Lorch and Florence Lorch in New York City on September 20, 1915. As a lifelong leftwing activist, he also came to the attention of investigatory commissions at both the federal and state levels. He and his wife, Grace Lorch, became involved in the black civil rights struggle in central Arkansas. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Lee Lorch was a professor of mathematics at Philander Smith College in Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the second half of the 1950s. It is a work of great interest and an enjoyable read. This book is a page-turner that all mathematicians-as well as others concerned with equality-should read. The author is a skilled story-teller with good stories to tell. The book also includes five interviews with leading Latin American mathematicians, along with the results of a survey of Latino research mathematicians in the Southwest. The book concludes with a happier chapter about five black mathematicians in the early twenty-first century. These stories indicate that though some efforts were more successful than others, all of them were difficult. There are stories about African American mathematicians who were students and faculty in late nineteenth century colleges and accounts of several efforts to integrate the mathematical community in the mid-twentieth century. He helped design Washington, DC, and made the computations for almanacs that succeeded Benjamin Franklin's.

The stories of African Americans in mathematics include the efforts of Benjamin Banneker, an eighteenth century American who had three grandparents born in Africa.

The author documents the rudimentary struggles to become professionals, being married without entirely giving up a career, organizing to eliminate flagrant discrimination, improving the daily treatment of women in the professional community, and the widespread efforts toward true equality. Activists in many fields will take heart at the progress made during that time. There are five chapters about women that provide insight into the nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century, the early 1970s, the early 1990s, and 2004.

Based on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, and spiced with interesting photographs, this entertaining book relates stories about mathematicians who have defied stereotypes.

Change Is Possible by Patricia Clark Kenschaft